Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet : An Autobiography ; in Two Volumes 1
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I'll shaw 'ee some'at like bullocks to call, and some- 'at like a field o** beans — I wool, — none o' this here darned ups and downs o' hills" (though the country through which we drove was flat enough, I should have thought, to please any one), " to shake a body's victuals out of his inwards — all so flat as a barn's floor, for vorty mile on end — there's the country to live in ! — and vour sons — or was vour on 'em — every one on 'em fifteen stone in his shoes, to patten again' any man from W...hit'sea Mere to Denver Sluice, for twenty pounds o' gold; and there's the money to lay down, and let the man as dare cover it, down with his money, and on w? his pattens, thirteen-inch runners, down the wind, again' ether a one o' the bairns !" TAILOB AND POET. 183 And lie jingled in liis pocket a heavy bag of gold, and winked, and chuckled, and then suddenly checking himself, repeated in a sad, dubious tone, two or three times, " vour on 'em there was — vour on 'em there was;" and relieved his feelings, by springing the pony into a canter till he came to a public house, where he pulled up, called for a pot of hot ale, and insisted on treating me.
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